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Exeter Times, 1902-7-3, Page 3"COO S\IE THE 10."111e="1..NNOMONvonel • His. Mojo.sty.H.rlalqog Satism. :factory: Progress To= wards Recovery • • A. London despatch says: The irony of fate ordained Viet the day named for the coronation of King Edward should be an ideal one, even among the delights of an English June. The.skieswere clear, and the heat of the, sun was tempered hy .a • eool, refreshing breeze. 'The weath- er gods, who are held .particularly responsible for the King's Undoing, seemed beat epon emphasizing the nation's disappointment. The mil- lions who expected to acclaim a.new- eroweed monarch went instead to church to Pray that Ws life be 'mix- ed; or made half-hearted holiday, wandering through the streets where his triumnhai propeseion would ham pawed. 7rhey were esen inclinot to be joyful in the light of the rayof hope which . came fromethe palace where the Royal sufferer ley. The first (ante balletinta sent out. by the physicians on Thursday were distinctly encouyaging. Ite was an- riounced at last that the patient's enspevature was normal, and this was the besI, possible news in a, case of this nature, .A.1.1 the other symp- toms wore also favorable. NATION dfOOK HEART AGAIN.. It :was therefore net sin -prising that the nation took heart again, and was ahuost inclined to indulge in premature rejoicing. The throngs which still filled the streets sane; and were gay. The Xing will live," was heard on all sides, and they begna to talk of a coronation in August or September. Then the evening- belleSin Was posted at 13. o'clock on the palace gates, and in all the post offices. It cencluded with the disqpiating sen- tence, Which checked the hopefulness: "There has been scane return of pain in the wound." These words would usually have eeriosa significaneo in a situation likesthat of the Xing, and the doe - "tors ,Would have hardly employed them unless they desired th'enateraS conclusion to, be drawn from them. 'Isreeh -pain implies fresh inflamma- tion... Renewed inflammation is else - 'Jelly accompanied or followed by a. renewed secretion Of pus Tbis poll is .oria bt_ extreme gravity. It might be :decided to .reopen the wound as a last resort. This has been done in many cases, and it is • sometimes successful where the pa- tient is' strong and in full yig-or of life. in the King's case it would be a SS 'iperate eedient.' .A writer in the Daily Mail, com- inentieg upoa the return of pain Ln the King's wound, suggests that it is due to the natural contraction of the wound and the abscess cavity, 'causing pressure on the drainage' tubes. It is therefore, he says,' • a healthy, natural sign. He believes therc has been no appreciable in- crease of temperature with the se - turn of pain. The writer soya the King has bedpermitted to smoke. He takes beef tea and milk. NOT A COMPLETE OPERATION. It la not generally -understood by readers of the semi-official account of the operation that it was neces- sary to remove a section of . the bowel itself, sand that even if the King rallies from the present: crisis another serious operation will be, neceseary as. soon as he is able to hear it. dealt only With the most eritical phase of the peril. From the Usual eflacts following any operation the King is rallying as well as cesld .be expected The danger is s of fresh com- plications, Which are more than likely , arise at esti' moMent, Against these science wotild be • obliged to' confess itself powerless. • WHAT •THE LANCET SAYS. So faa as it is possible Yet to. say imythieg definite, the Kingds prosa pectsa are distinctly favorable. ThuredaY: was a good day, felloca- ed by a .fair night, the Patient have, in refiaehing sleep, The state of the wound ia satisfactory, the dis- charge healthy, the .tempereture ThuesdaY eveaing normal; a feet Which is insportaat, as indicating. that the occasional Pala experienced' ia the wound had no sinister signi- flcaueo. Nourishment was taken; and cheerfulnees maintained The }Pug' hasseen and conversed with 1.1-e Prince of Wales 'and .the royal Princesses. Tbe Queen has visited the sick man several times. , The definite statienenta issued by the Lancet, that the bulletins are ae- Orate., that the condition is simp- ly perityphlitia that the right me- dical °Pinion has been sought, that the risht procedure has been follow- ed, ilea that no symptoms of malig- nant 'disease are present, have much reaseured the public. At noon to- day the Wound is comfortable, and the general condition less anxious/. • THE XING'S TEASPEldiATUREs -Lord ,Lister, one •of the physicians in attendance, remarked to a friend to -day: • " "The operation was the most seri- ous tea which a man of the King's age and condition could be. subject- ed." They took what is described as one desperate chance. :Not to oper- ate meant, .certain death within -for- ty-eight' hours, and there remained the possibility of prolonging, if not saving, life by the radical use of the knife. That possibility -they seized; as it was their Say to' do. e ABSCESS HAD NOT BURST.. The operation revealed even a worse condition than .was anticipet- ad regarding the parts involved. het the abscess had not burst. Theta - fore, general blood poisoning had not begun. But it was eVident that 11° _nothing could he done toward pro- aperatien. The surgeon, therefore, motinqsa radical euro by. a single THEMARKF,TS 111.•••••••••= A. member of. the Covert:intent saidl to a representative of the Associated Press': "Really, everything- is going I on wonderfully Well, and .we all now think the Kine will recover, though, of emirs% we are afraid of beteg premature and unduly .optimistic. The Xing is proving ,hiaiself a gal- lant • .."A wood deal of ill -feeling and ailedanted Criticism appears .to have been caused by theomission of the temperature from. the .bulleiSes. '1 ; .understand the dOctors•.avoid menel tion of it foa ventipg what they believed natild . the aurp -.ose of pre -1 be an. avalancheof faul.ty• deductions t from the press -amt.-alleged:experts. It is only natural that the King's temperature slightly rises at • -night, and it is expected todo se for ,.sonie time. How little, however, this omission from the bulletins is cal- culated to inspire the• public with false confidence can be judged from the fact •. that . Wednesday eve -klieg, • when, rerhape, the King might have boot expected to have been at his most critical reriod, ais temperature was normal, yet the doctors purpose- ly refrained from mentioning it." Many .of the medical experts now believe that all danger of any Rep - tie process has a aesed, ...and that, so far as Can hes:cell, the crisis may be regarded as at an •end. • BEST BULLETIN 'YET,. "It's the best yet," war the pop- ular comment with which the bulle- tin posted at Buckingham Palace at 11 o'clock on 'Friday was greeted. •All the professional .opinions gather- ed are distinctly favorable and hopeful; the doctors questioned• re- gard- the danger of peritonitis to have now Ialinost pared and believe His Majesty's • recovery to be- en- tirely probable. • •.. Liverpool was illuminated on Fri- day .night in. recognition _of the geed news.' - • • After learning the contents of She bulletin . the crowd at the palace- catiekly -disp•erevala aad the rejoicing which was already apparent in the crowded streets• increased in keeping. with •the terms of the latest report.. The Pique° ..and • Princess •of Wales dined at Au.elciagisam:Palace on dee night in: .Company with sayeral. foreign Royal personages. Alla the diners raturned early to their homes, QUEEN'S FATHER ANXIOUS. - HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII. COUNTRY PRODUCE. •• Dried apples - ,There is nothing doing, and prices are purely • , Hops - Trade quiet, with orices steady at 3.8c; yearlings, 7c. Honey - Very little doing; comb, $2 to $2.25 per dozen. Beans, - The market is quiet . $1. to '$1.30, •the latter for hand- picked, Hay, baled - The meniet is firm, withfair demand; timothy, $10.50 to.$11 for 'No. 1. Straw .-The market is quiet. Car lots on track quoted at $5 to.$5.50, the latter for No. • Poultry - Offerings are limited. We quote: -Turkeys, young, 18 to 3.6c per lb.; do., old, SI to 12c; chickens, 75,to $1 tier pair. Potatoes This market is firmer, with car lots quoted» at 80c per bag.bri track; small lets sell. at ,90c..• Prices of: Grain, _Cattle, etc ill Trade Centres. swel.vro VOMO, une 80. - Wheat -The market is quiet, With No. 2 White and red quoted at 76S to 76Se, mid - kilo freights. No. 2 goose quoted at 68e east; No, 2 spring, 75 to 75e casts - Manitoba No. 1 hard' sold at 87c, •grinding .in traneit,. arid No.. 3. Northern at 87e, grinding; in transit. No. 1 hard quoted at 844 • to 85e, Toronto and west, and No. 1 Northern at 814 to 82a, Toronto and west, , Oats -• The market is quiet. No, 2 white sold at 444e west, and at 45c east, No, 8 wbtte et,' 48e. vest.. Corn - 'Market is ,firm. yellow quoted cet 011c west, and No: 2 mixed at 61.Sewest. • Barley- -- Trade quiet, with No. 8 extra quoted at 52aSe middle freights. Rye - The Market is 'steady, with * No. 2 geo.ted at 1.5eoutside, It is reported that Xing Chris - thin, 'whese health is excellent, wished to start for London imine- diately, but his daughtsr, Queen Alexandra, dissuaded him, raying that King Edward was maSing good eyeglass. Flour - Ninety per -cent. Ontario. patent quoted at $20.90 middle freights, in buyers' sacks. Straight rollers, in wood, quoted at $3.25 to $3.85. Alanitoba flours are steady. nuagarian patents,' $4.05 to , $6.25 delipered on track Toronto, bags in- cluded; and strong :bakers' $:1..80 to' $8.95. Oatmeal - Csia.lots in Wis. $5.10 on tracv, and in eatiks at $5. Brou- en lots 25c extra. • .- Millfeed -' Brea, is dull at $16,50 $1T, and 'aliorta at $19.tas to $20..• At 'Toronto bran is ;$i9, and shorts $21. in bulk. Wilhelm bran, ,S20 'in sacvs, and, shorts $93 in eaeks, Toronto. ITOCI PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs unchanged. Hog pre-' ducts steady. We (1u o to; -Bacot , long clear, 111 to llic, in ton and ease lots; mess pork, $2a.50 to $22; cia., hort cut, s$23.50 .to $24. Smoked meats --- Hams, 13S to 1.4e; breakfast, bacon, 15* to 15Se; soils, 12 to 12i1d); backs, 15 to 1S4c; Shell "dere, *US c. • • Lard - Prices unchanged. We quote: -Tierces, 1.1 c; tubs, la c; tis 111c; compelled 1) to 1•00. • • TEE DAIRY .1CIARXISTS.A. • . . Butter - The offerings ere fair, and prices generally unchanged.. We quotee-Ledmice 1-1b. rolls, 16 tit 17e; selected daisy tubs,. Vic; store pack- ed, good colon 15 to 15c; low grades, 10 to 12c, and medium, 13 to 140; creamery prints, 19 to 20c; and solids, 18 tat 3.9c. • • - Eggs - The meaket watinues firm. We quble:-Fresh gathered candles" stock, 14,4 to •15c; ordin- ary, 13 to 14e; seconds and cheeks, 11c. Cheese - Market is a trifle weaker. quote: -Finest, 10 to 101c; sec- onds, 01c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. - Duhrth, June, 30. - Close -Wheat -Cash, No. 1 hard, 77S -c; No. 1. Northern. a No. 21 Northern, 741c; .Tuly, 75t1e; Sept., 73.1e; No. 2 toba, No. .1 'cash, 751a; No, 2 Northern, 73Sc... Oats -Cash, 66c; Sept., 311e. Detroit, June 30. - Wheat -Close -No. 1 white, cash, 88c; No. 2 red, cash and June, 71/Se; July, 76Sc; Sept., 76c. • LIVE STOOK MARKETS.. Torente, June 80. At the 117este ern cattle Market this morning the receipts were 54 carloads of live stock, •Ineluaing 936 cattle, 1,680 shop and lambs, 850 hogs, 150' calves, aid two dozen-ntilth cows. For goodscattle prices were steady end' unchanged, with a brislc• de- mand, but .the really good cattle here 'wee a very s.mall pi-opostion in- deed, and for cominon stuff prices were easier, though it about alt Theta was a good busineab doing to -day in export cattle, owing con- siderably to the fact that there is much epee° to fill on:the boats- at Montretsl, but the supply of cattle worth exporting was sinalt• and was caught up early. For choice cattle prices -ranee(' from $6 to $6.75 per ewt, • "Medium to good stuff sold froxn $1/5 to $5.50 per 'cwt. There 'Was a good trade in butcher cattle of the right, kind. roe good to choice cattle prices ranee: from $4.50 to $6.50; and for a; few picked lots little mere reps occasionelly paid. But poor grass-fed &title were weak, and sales dragged. Mich WAITS; • Springers, stokers. and feedera ' Ore in just the same busindes . condition as ott Tuesday last.' • Calves are weaker to -day, at froui $2 to $8 each. Sheep and leaabs aye both easier at from ten to.twenty-five cents per cwt. lower. .• • The market for hogs to -day, is steady tied eerheezed. „ The lop price of choice hogs, is $6.871 per c,wta,-light and fat hogs are $0.62S: per cwt. Hogs to fetch the tap price Must he' of prime quality; and scale not below 160 nor. above 200 lbs. , :Following , is the rise& of quota- S•hiPpetia , poiw ant- . $5: ,$6.75 . 'Do., • light 4:S/5 775.50 tcher, cboice 4.75 5.60 Patchett', ore-lima:IT to '•• good ... ,.. 8,75 , 4.40 Stockers, per OWL -8.00 4.00 KrtEnv ANT) LAMBS. • ' Choice ewes, pee- cwt 3.50. 8.75 Spring lantbs, each 2.00 4,00 Bucks, per Mat ... 2.75 8:00 THE CORONATION 1101\ORS LIST OF CANADIANS WHO HAVE RECEIVED TITLES. see Londoners Estimate Total At Over a Million Pounds. emeeeeeeaelmeeeeeee*S. A London despatch says :-Nove that the first effects of the paralyz- ing blow has worn away, it 15 pos- *sible to get sortie idea of the tre-. sundaes lois which •the Postpone - meet of the coronation entailed. One no longer talks of thousands, but hundreds of thousands of pouuds, when speaking of 'the amount of money which one way oranother will go for nothing. • A rough estimate of the losses that con be calculated upon with Miscs of fact snakes the appal - bag total Z1000,000, and this does not Mehl& wbat has boil erent ;foe' robes, jewels, coaches and horses, and . for deorating and renovating houses by the nobility. in the first place, Lloyd's, under- writers, lose, at a, conservative esti- mate, £200,000 on Wicks ,whic.h covered the risk that the festivities would not aala place on Thursday and Friday, June 26 and .27. They stand to lose half as much again on those policies swhich overed.the risk that the coronation would not take place at all. , . ' SEAT SPECULATORS. . Next come the seat speculators. Insurance policies taken out hy thorn. amount to, some L.120;000: Now, the erection of stands and the ad- vertising aad the paying for rights involved an expenditure of at least L500,000. Supposing one way or tha.other they retain L100,000 out ol y for insur- received Z120,000 e,tai,oitey paid for tickets, and the ance, they still are losers of £1180, - This loss is made up of several itins: and two main ones,heing the cost of constructing the stands and hiring the premises. Joseveral eases -large premises - more than £2,000 was paid for the right to build stands. Seats were erected altogether for nearly ,six hundred thousand persons. , Tra.desmen who let 'fent their own premises end did not •einploy• agents many Prominent Canadians Hon- - ored. for Distinguished Services. , • An Ottawa despatch says :-The. following -etatement was handed' Out frem Rideatt • Hall on Wednesday. night :- • His Majesty the King has been gra- ciously pleased to confer the follow- ing honors as• • To be member of. the Kieg's Most Honorable Privy Council -His Ex- cellency the Karl of Minto, K.O.M. Ge, Governer -General of Canada. To be Knights Commander 'of the Metst Dietinguiehed Order, or St. Michael. and St. 6eorge :- - The Hon. David Hunter mealinee, Lieutencina-Govereor of Manitoba: . The Hon. Frederick William Borden Miniaters of Militia and Defenees The Hoe. William Mulock, K.C., Postmeeter-General. To be Knight Bachelors . The Hon. Heari Elzear Taschereau, P uisne -aTattig ea ef :the 8 anaeth our t of CtirradaS • • , • • •••-: - The Hon. Robt. Beak, PreSident of the., Legislative Council...of Nov Scotia. To be Companions of the Most Diatieguished Order of St. Michael and St. George :- • Lieut -Col. Frederic White, Comp- troller of the Northwest Mounted Police. - Limits -Col. Percy Sherwood, Com- missioner Dominion Police. ' .Roltert Harris, President • of -the Royal Canadian Academy. • •• Sir F. W. Borden receives a Knighthood tecause of his services to the empire in connection with the organization and despatch of Cana- dian colitingents to South ' AfriSta Sir William Afelock has been Knight- ed by reason -.of his succesaful efforts to institute imperial penes, postage. Sir Head Tasehereen is a distin- guished :weather of the Seprbine Court ilcuela and. is likely to.*sec- owl Sir Heeler Strang as Chief •Testice When, the letter retires: G.1.1.713ERT 1?Armu13. A KNIGHT; A Striadon• despatch eniye• • • coro n a tem sb mess atentemced hi the Official Gazette contain • the annoencetherit that the fallowing have been -made 'Knights :- • '1)r. A. Conan Doyle, the•novelist: Gilbert:Padker, the novelist. : • .FeaeCia C.:But-nand, the -editor of Punch. Valle Stephen, president of the Ethical Society. Sir Robert Bond, the Psemier of .Newfoundland, is made •a , ,Privy bout eiller. Sir Frederick Troyes; Sergt.aSpr- germ to. the King, and Sir George Pendy Lewis, Oe Wellknown lawyer • besidm es .Sir Thomas Lipton, .are cre- ated Baronets. I The Order of Knight of the Garter is bestowed on the Duke of We -Binge ton and the Duke of Sutherland. : The Duke of Roxburgh mid the Earl df Haddington are made Knights of the Thistle.: ; The'Faid of Enniskillen and Baron Davos became Knights of St. Pat- rick. The Marl of Hopetoue, Gevernor- Gen CT a I of the Commonwealth of Australia, who reeently resigned, is raised to a, Mesgeisate. Laid Milner is raised to the rank afTVaheieexeittiiiigt ba.s .I.UStiteted te neve older of merit, tcawhich be has ap- pointed Lord Wolseley, Lord Roberta Lord Kitchener, Lard Kelvin, Lord Lister, the Right Hon. John Morley, .the Liberal -etatesman, and George. Watts-, the Royal Aeadernician. His Majesty has also instituted a new order for civil servants,' entitled the Imperial *Service Ortier. CANADIANS SAIL FOR HOME • 41612MINCE-1,0111.01. Cl'ose of War Has Released Therm From, Seavice. A Durberi, Natal, 'despatch says: About 1,500 Canadian troops stilled front lire° for home on 'Friday. %ha° thousand additional Canedians start for ho.the ( JuTy also lose heavily. Many shops have thrown them- selves out of gear for months pie-' paring for the coronation visitors.' Little ordinary business has laen clone, while the rent has kept up as usual, and wages have gone on. At least' 4150,000 WAS 10St, by trades- man in this way. LOSS IN FOOD SUPPLIES: Caterers and food contractors of all descriptions, and fruit and wine merchants all lose ,eeavily, as Lon- don is now stateked with twice as mu.ch provisions as ordinarily would be consumed. .A. great deal of this is PeriShable, and will be a dead loss. Thousands of contracts for luzioheous were canceled within a few. hours of the news of the King's illness being made known. These caterers iui turn repudiate their contracts for supplies, so the loss is divided between three classes, but somehow they will be £50,000, out of pocket and unaccounted for. Railway coxnpanies calculated to thing 800,000 visitors to London on Taursday and Friday. Almost ev- ery. available carriage tvas let at prices rangieg from Sve to twenty guineas for each. days The .average price for a single -horse vehicle was seven' guineas. THE DECORATIONS. Private and corporation decora- tions and illuminations now count- ing for naught oust at least £100,- 000. Then the Government's ex- pense- in erecting stands in the Ab- bey, and in bringing the King's and the nation's guests to London ap- pi'oxiinaie more than 100,o00. • What is to show for all this ex- penditui e '9 Thousands upon thou- sands of empty seats, flapping pen - 'nous and banners, garland -encircled masts, . showily' bedecked buildings, innumerable illuminations' of varied designs, all of which seem sadly out of place,' while the King, in whose honor these sprang into exist- ence, Bea stricken: - RA.1LWAY8 SIR IN THE. WESII-NEWS 1TE se THOMAS SHAUGHNESSY'S INSPECTION TRIP. He Is Highly Pleased With Pros- pects and Conditions -in. the West. • A. Montreal despatch baYs: Sir Thomas Shaughnessy returned Wed- nesday front a tour of inspectioii over the C.P.R., highly pleaSed with the couditions of the west and the prospects for the coming season. When. askedif he thought there wee room for the Mackenzie & Mann line to parallel the Canadian Pa- cific, and how itwould afie.ct the development of the Present line. Sir Thomas rather made light -et' this project. "The Canadian Pacific," he said, "has not yet hem paralleled,. and May not be Inc some time to come. The lie of which you speak. presets some 'very diffleult prob-. lems -both in constructiou tunl fin - ending, in view of the territory through which it is projected. It is likely to be a good many yeaes- be- foae there is 'anotherline amass the OOntinent, ifever, to 'the north of our line. We are not doing any worrying about. • competiliori yet." "Whcuu asked it bennotitedaatry. tend- ency toward -business improvetnent Iui British Columbia. "Sir Thomas seid there was same indication of stianue lotion, in affairs on .the coast. Sn sPite.of all- ideas to the centrist -3r, there isstill mineral. (leaches:mut 'going on and the mining business is ekteeziing•.., "However," he said, "as told there. in• British. Columbia,' they. will ne'ver have solid and per- manent prosperity until they • .11E1MT,C)P AORSCULTURE. The fertile Valleys of' the Province have been • neglected. Br ltiSh Co- lumbia Should to -day be a great. ag- ricultural Province:- The people .are of :course, t blamefor this neglect. They .have s stbown 0 tendency .to eist 'upon the Governmeta doing the things. they should do 'themselves. They..havo treated bonuses .for 'reale ways, and -sic-mild not build with out them,. and the. Government has been .directing its efforts in that direction inStead of the development of s agriculture)." -• manufac- t.uringg a,n.d lamiteriag and fishing are great .soutaes of ',Wealth in that Pro- vince,. hut such industries.require age eicalltaireabeeking to".give tlmin sta- bility.. • Tho. wealth of" the theins node to hare the. wealth of the .courary to draw ripen. ,The present industrial, depression la.:7(ltie Measure tat seine Of the labor leg- islation that the Province has pass- ed and .,to the lack of .agyietilteiral development." . Speaking (if the wit- templated general,,improvemerits Ste the road, Sir Thoniite said the' -re- duetien, of gradients, and .ef aurae-. 'tares would, be peaceededayith juat ee -soon as Ida Mejlesear, :the net- eagiticetainachief, heaV 'will& involve thi -expenditure: of; Mi1liona''011'dellase, end which it is tetiniateel Will in- crease the baulingSeapeeity, loedS. metives by front 20- to 40.. per cent. Work on the neW elevators at Fort Willittan, Sir .ThonlaS said,- Was pro- ceeding - everything Would. be .reatier to handle the great &Op everyoneie leaking fors • THE SITE OF GAM., Rerii.axiable Discoveries 1V4acle in ralestine. A London despatch sItys, Sit. Qiitu.tes• Wilson, ra.. ,the ineptingof thc POtbc Dxployatton tt:Oliyecont 'view:tilos in thO 1oi.!,14,111i,dountry 0l Juctab 111 Arbii speo„lor said, 1110% ;a of abelebt Gath. Juni been. 1f;a:0;eti. 'Upon a point whieli'afforded a stilt, lug view of the battloiliald upon which David slew Goliath rem., nants Of pottery had been found, and alaong the discoveries in WS! district was a monolith, 'which evi- dently formed ohe of the "high places" often referred 1;o lit the Old Testament, 'The observations made near the Dead Sea showed that there had been a fall in the level of the sea Telegraphic Briefs From .411 Over the Globe. Tr A after a fall lasting for a very long time. It was hoped that further researches would discover the layer of burned coal and, aSb.es whialt marked the •cle5truetion of the town of Cezer by Pharaoh, the father-in- law of Kung 8olomon, who, after- wards gave the site to his daughter. • POPE LEO. CANADA. Montreal furniture -manufacturers have increased priCap 10 per cent. The electrical workers' strike itt Haanilton has been declared off, ar- bitration being •a•greed upon. A fifteen months' old Child of Wm. Kirk, of Hamilton, -got the rope of a swing under its neck and was strangled to 'death. Dawson' City has decided to ap- point civie police, and Major Wood has been requested to'withdraw the mounted police at the end of the Month. 0 . s • ,Tbe Board of Works Committee of the Hamilton Council has refused the petition of Hathilton civic la- borers for 20 cents tin hatit, an in- crease of two mate. 'In. • pursuance of the Imperial scheme to re -construct the defences at .Kingstoia contracts have been made to remodel the fort connnand- ing Kingston harbor. Modern guns will'he sent, fro.m. England. , SWEAT BRITAIN. Shropshire's losses M the war' so Inc number 221 officers and men. Four blast furnaces are to be er- ected In. Ctirdila Wales, and four 'in Maidleaborough„by a Philadelphia firm. NOW equipments . necessary to bring London's fire briage up to an efficient standard include engines of greater power.. • - "Snuff" is the local name of a mysterious 'malady which has al- ready caused the deaths of many sheep in •Cardiganshire. Glasgow 'Corporationhas, negatived a Proposal ,that blind persons should Pc alloweir to travel free over the local nianicipal tramway system. Lot(' Roberts .has again appealed to the public to refrain from treat- ing the returning soldiers, so that the °well-deserved welcome may not Pc ddse• means- of sullying the fair name' of my gallant comrades, of whose stainlese reputations I am as jealous as I am preud." ' ' •• UNITED STATES. The sold bed ot Last Chance Creek,. which 'produced 315,000,000 in, gold, has beea discovered while sinking • a wit et Helena, Mont. . 'Members of Irish' societies in Chi- cago denounced the "unholy war" waged hysEngland against the Boers and pledged support to John Tiede mond . Saul' his allies,. ,T)Ssililii; 6ght • Knoxville, ;Verne, hhtween a returned soldier and-hisefelends, Who quarrelled with ,traducers of the American alley, 'four men. Wore fatally irtjuSed. Train robbers bleW up a„*.eaction of the Northera Pacific road forty mike east of Duluth, with the object of etopping Ringling Bros.' show and holding up the cash box, but a Woodsesian gave the alarm. His Personal. Traits. -Writes With . a Geld Pen. The Pope is a keen judge of many thiegs and bas a pretty wit. Ho is reported to have said that gr. Hall -• Caine's "Italians," in spite of their isanies, arayall Anglo-Saxons. The daily menu et the Pontiff con- sists of a cup .of coffee with lain:, a roll and DO butter for breakfast. ,At dinner there is soup, plain meat, fried vegetables and chicken cro- quettes fried in butter as only Ro- mans know how,. pastry and one glass of Burgundy. At 6 o'clock a cup of bouillion, and at supper a little cold meat. Fruit is alwaye on the table, especially pears ; .a small cup of coffee wita a little sugar is taken during the day now and -then. The dish best liked by His Holiness is taste, • made especially for the Vatican table by the nuns of Santa Maria. This is maa0 froth aesy-laid eggs and flour of the' finest quality. The Pope has a piaconceived idea of how he desires to have' his por- trait appear, says an artist who has twice painted His Holiness. Squar- ing himself in his seat, his hand upraised, with two fingers' extended as in the act of benediction, a con- ventional smile, drawing hack his colorless lips, he would sit motion- less for a moment, stiffening. every muscle as we all do in photographic expectancy ; then abandoning it. "Voila, mon enfant !" be would ex- claim, with an air of triumph. He is a;livass much interested hi his por- trait • e.nd the artist, and renders every assistance necessary except that of remaining still. which seems to be out of his power. • Leo MIL speaks quite as often in French as Italian and always with extreme rapidity. Ho only commenc- ed to study. -French when appointed Nuncio to Belgium, "and I could speak as fluently as I do by the time I reached Brussels," he is reported to have said. King Leopedd used to exclaim "I forgot Pecci is an Ital- ian." He does his private 'writing with a gold pen, but his pontifical signature is always with a white flattened quill. which is believed to have come from the wing of a. dove, although persons who have seen it say it must have come from a larger bird. The same quill has been in use more than forty years. 3t only Mace for important signatures, and is kept in an ivory case. The pen with which ibe•Pope signed and, dated the first document of the twentieth cen- tury was a present from tbs. citizens of Naples. lt is of •gOld, mounted with precious stones. • KING CREATED ADMIRAL. Kaiser Issues a Special Order to His Fleet. ...A Kiel despatch says!' Emperor William has made King Edward an: honorary admiral of the German navy. Subsequently to 'makingthe appointment he issued an order - to the fleet by flag signals, saying: "1 hope the fleet will always be mind- ful of this high honor, which, at • the same time, brings it into closer relations with its emurades of tho British navy. . The fleet is to im- mediately hoist the British flag at the masthead, fire s, sauuit �f two.- ty-one guns mtd give three cheers for the King of England," The order was immediately obeyed: DR. TREVES'.CHILD A VICTIM Child of Mans 'Who Operated on King Died of 'Appesielicitii. A. London despatch Says: The daughter of Sip Frecleeich Troves, the surgeon who puformed tho opera- tion els the King, died a few days ago of appendicitis. • FORMING. NEW EYELIDS. A aeana,rkable auegioal triumph has been won .by a Philadelphia debtor, Who has succodded in 'grafting a now set of upper and lower eyelids ea the eyes of a men who lost hia orighial set in ft narei d'in'ilierelyi ft°aititn ielb- hadleft 'both eyebllt protected, ,and there was danger the 'victint losing his sight entirely. When the case was brought to the attention of the doctor :he resolved Q6. graft four new eyelids, if possible. taking the skin from the hip of the patient. It was necessary to proeted slowly, bet the experiment Was suc- cessful from the start. To -day. the patient has four new eyelids, Which perform 'the normal * functions ria- turallY. , It is reported • that two Nthiliets' shot and killed, Ar. Ints, Secretary te the Governor of WarsaW. Three huadrecl and fifty thousand, dollars was the amouat lost reeent- ly at Budapest by one young Bri- tish noblexnun. to anoth.ork